Iraq Two suicide car bombs outside Iraq's interior ministry and another near a police station in Baqbuba killed six people as Shiite political parties piled pressure on the Kurds to join them in a governing coalition. US US President George W. Bush again stated his willingness to assist European countries in their negotiations with Iran, and blamed Tehran for a lack of cooperation. Iran The UN atomic agency called on Iran to do more to cooperate with UN inspectors and backed a European Union effort to give Tehran trade and security benefits in exchange for abandoning nuclear fuel cycle work. Lebanon Lebanon's embattled president was struggling to find a new premier after the opposition insisted on a Syrian pledge for a troop pullout before it would hold talks on joining a new government. Mideast Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed to press ahead with a promised pullout from the Gaza Strip, despite calls from his own party for a referendum and a new blow to the fragile peace process from a bomb blast in the West Bank. Indonesia The United States said it was disturbed and disappointed by what it called a light 30-month sentence given to an Indonesian Muslim cleric convicted over a bloody 2002 bombing in Bali. NKorea The UN atomic agency called on North Korea to return to six-party talks on its nuclear program, even as Pyongyang ended a self-imposed moratorium on testing long-range missiles and said "hostile" US policy was forcing it to make nuclear weapons. France One of France's biggest-ever criminal trials, in which 66 men and women are accused of raping children "sold" by their parents for pitiful sums of money and cigarettes, opened in the western city of Angers. Britain Three people have been arrested in the industrial city of Coventry under Britain's main anti-terrorist law. Vatican Pope John Paul II's health is improving after throat surgery to ease his breathing but there is no set date for his departure from hospital, a Vatican spokesman said. Togo Togo's electoral commission set a presidential vote for April 24, but opposition groups in the West African state said such short notice was unfair. Kenya Police arrested more than 40 anti-globalization protestors as ministers and senior officials from 33 nations met to jumpstart efforts to seal a global trade accord by 2006. US With two shaky steps and a wave to a cheering crowd, American adventurer Steve Fossett claimed what many consider the last great aviation milestone: the first solo, non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world.